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Help will this erase my flash????
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welcome to the forums!!!!!!!!
moved you to the evo 4g support and trouble shoot section.
do you know if the phone is rooted? power the phone off then press and hold power+vol down. this will take you to the bootloader screen. if you could post what it says there then we can help you better, once we have that info.
for now we will keep it here in this forum, until we know if you are rooted or not. most phones that get flashed to other carriers usually needs to have a rooted phone.....some do not (i believe).
well to be safe lets see what your bootloader says.
power off the phone then press and hold power+vol down
report back what you see on the screen
there is a reboot option or you could just pull the battery out
no worries about the questions....LOL
and as far as bricking your phone.....i would never suggest something that could brick your phone without warning. it is really hard to brick your phone so i would not worry about it.
just report back what you see in the bootloader screen and we can point you in the right direction.
oops yeah you need to disable fastboot, settings>apps>uncheck fastboot
now you should be able to completely power off the phone.
no....LOL
fastboot is just a setting that htc added with gingerbread so that you can quickly power the phone on. it really does not power the phone off...just kind of goes into sleep mode. to fully power the phone off you need to disable fastboot. i always have fastboot unchecked......(kind of a dumb feature if you ask me).
and going into the bootloader is harmless as well.
do not worry.....i'll let you know if something bad will happen
thank youand i am on bootload it says ***l0cked(00w)** at the very top
ok so you are correct in that you are not rooted as you have a locked bootlaoder. so the ota should be fine by accepting it. the only thing that i can't be sure is if your flash will stick as the ota will contain new radios.
for now i would not accept it, until you get confirmation that it will not mess with your flashed phone. so i would go into settings>software update>uncheck the option to check for updates. now you should not get the message that you have an update.
once you get confirmation that it will be fine then you can go back and accept the ota.
maybe ask the place where you got your phone flashed and ask them about the ota. they should know.
ok that is your bootloader menu. you can select power down. this will shut the phone off. you can then power it back on.
Thank you so much for your help
it is all good. no worries.
and you get a thanx for the thanx.....so thanx
